diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index a80311a27ba2fd28850d957e7f574beb23435639..0e796fa71fd6ef6fa9fef1f0cafb49276899ad7e 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ My SO username and protest time are not infinite. If China starts a war, I might have to fight it. +## You are not Chinese, you have been brainwashed by the USA know nothing about China + +I don't doubt that you know more about China than me. + +If you know something I don't, please tell me, I always want to learn. + +But if you are Chinese, also consider that you have been brainwashed by the commies, and likely more than me since you live in a dictatorship. + ## In the Tweet you say "correctional facility", but reeducation through labour has been abolished My bad [here](https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/579270450984984576), the precise term is "jail". I'm *not* talking about: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor> Unfortunately I can't edit a Tweet. @@ -131,17 +139,9 @@ For example, the street is not meant to showcase protest banners, it is meant to Making a statement where no one will ever see it, like a personal website, is sure to have no effect. -## Many people have died because they stopped taking medication because of Falun Gong, you should not support it +## The Chinese masses are still uneducated, and not fit for democracy -This is likely true, and makes me worry, but consider: - -- http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27529/have-many-falun-gong-practitioners-forgone-medical-treatment-and-died-of-treatab -- maybe people should be allowed to choose not to take medication if they don't want to -- maybe the number of people killed during persecution vastly outnumbers those who died because they would not take medication -- what matters are statistics. Maybe FLG people live longer than non FLG in average. But we will never know because of censorship. -- several religions, including Christianism have miraculous cure claims -- maybe the main reason why communists banned FLG is the political threat it posed, a ban was unjustified given the situation -- many some of those people would also have died soon if they had taken medication +When will they be ready? Who decides? What if they think that they are ready now? ## Does your employer support this? @@ -151,4 +151,44 @@ He doesn't approve or disapprove of the Chinese government or of my private acti The only thing that my employer *does* believe in is that employees can have their own political opinions, and that this should not affect hiring decisions. -Obviously, my employer risks losing contracts with China because of me, But she believes that being morally correct, and not discriminating political positions is more valuable. +Obviously, my employer risks losing contracts with China because of me, But she believes that inclusion and non-discrimination is more valuable. + +## Falun Gong + +### Many people have died because they stopped taking medication because of Falun Gong, you should not support it + +<http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27529/have-many-falun-gong-practitioners-forgone-medical-treatment-and-died-of-treatab> + +This is a point that makes me worry, but consider: + +- what matters are statistics. Maybe FLG people live longer than non FLG in average. But we will never have statistics because of censorship +- maybe people should be allowed to choose how they want to die, not to take medication if they don't want to +- maybe the number of people killed during persecution vastly outnumbers those who died because they would not take medication +- several religions, including Christianism have miraculous cure claims +- maybe the main reason why communists banned FLG is the political threat it posed, but that a ban was unjustified given the situation. Christian crosses are being taken down as of 2016, have they stopped taking their medications as well? +- many some of those people would also have died soon if they had taken medication +- maybe not all Falun Gong believers thought that it was wise to stop taking medication. But their religion was banned anyways. + +### Falun Gong is completely different in the West than it was in China + +I believe that it has changed. + +It has become more organized. + +People are better educated in general, and discourse must be different to appeal to them, e.g. underplaying the religious aspect. + +If you know more ways in which it has changed, let me know. + +But I still don't think it justifies the ban. + +And once again, we can know nothing for sure about the past in China because of censorship. + +Even if you saw something yourself, how can you be sure that it is representative? + +And now that it has changed, maybe China should unban it? + +### FLG is a fake religion + +Similar to the question: does God exist? + +And thus unanswerable, and not interesting to me.